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Covid-19 Test Positivity Rate, A Key Indicator Of Infections, Steadily Rising In California

24.06.2021 - 05:51

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For the first time since December 2020, California’s 7-day Covid test positivity rate is on the rise. The test positivity rate, which hit a pandemic-era low of 0.7% on June 5, has risen slowly but steadily over the past two-and-a-half weeks to 1.1% on Wednesday.

It’s the first sustained rise in that key Covid-19 indicator since the worst of California’s pandemic in January — and its happening just as the state lifts most Covid-19 restrictions.That same 7-day Covid test positivity rate has also risen over roughly the same period in the state’s most populous county, Los Angeles.

L.A. bottomed out most recently in early June at just above 0.4%. On Wednesday, the county’s test positivity rate had grown to 0.8%. (See chart below — which does not